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Chittagong

Shahi Jama-e-Masjid

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Lonely Planet review for Shahi Jama-e-Masjid

Shahi Jama-e-Masjid, in Anderkilla (inner fort), was built in 1670 on a hillock and hence looks a bit like a fort. The mosque has a tall minaret, Saracenic or Turkish in design, which looms up out of the shops that have since surrounded it. In the early 1950s it was greatly enlarged and most of its original features altered, though a number of original inscriptions are still embedded in the walls.